[4] He supposedly had so many enemies in Wiltshire that it was recorded how, when a riot broke out in March 1477, he would have been murdered had he been present.
[10] Blake was reprieved after a petition from the Bishop of Norwich,[11] but Burdet and Stacy, still protesting their innocence, were taken to Tyburn the following day and hanged, drawn and quartered.
[12][8] His trial and execution were part of a train of events that led to the fall of George, Duke of Clarence the following year.
He argues that, Burdet, in anger, wished the buck, "horns and all", to appear in the belly of the one that had counselled the King to that evil deed.
"[15] The historian Christine Carpenter has argued that, in Warwickshire, men such as Burdet "were almost the only members of the gentry who were prepared to take an active part in the Wars of the Roses", being a man with "little to lose, for they ... were already losers".